As if to prove what so many of us already know and love about Denver — that it’s a robust culture and sports town — not only are the Colorado Rockies marking 20 years this week, so too is the Denver Center’s Garner Galleria Theatre.

The Galleria: Denver Center's little theater that could and has, celebrates 20 years with extension of hit "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change."

Sitting in his office in the wonderfully subterranean Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex, Randy Weeks, Denver Center president and executive director of Denver Center Attractions, recounts how the whole thing happened. It began with the musical revue “Forever Plaid.”

While living in Washington, D.C, Weeks went to see “Forever Plaid” at the Ford Theatre, he says, “to see the crazy boys in the plaid jackets.” It’s worth noting, Weeks shares this memory while wearing the type of pants one might find in the Land’s End catalog or at a Brooks Brothers store. Not plaid but nonetheless boldly yellow and patterned. He pulls it off.